#Font glyphs list full

Even for the post table itself (where glyph names are stored), one of the allowed forms, called Verson 3, is one that has no names. Given the ubiquitous support for TrueType/OpenType fonts, one might ask why do we even have glyph names? Nothing inside an OpenType font requires glyphs to have names - complex layout tables GSUB and GPOS, for example, do all their work in terms of glyph indexes. This section documents conventions, restrictions, and best practices for glyph naming. IntroductionДЇor various reasons (historical, technical, convenience) most font development tools and formats provide mechanisms to name glyphs with human-readable strings (as opposed to just index numbers, for example). Various font tools may have other restrictions but such are not derived from any official font specifications.ДЇor glyphs that can end up in the final output of rendered text, the production glyph names should be selected from the Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts.ISO/IEC 14496-22 вЂњOpen Font FormatвЂќ recommends that names, with the exception of.notdef, must not start with a digit or a period.

Adobe Font Development Kit Feature File Specification allows name length up to 63 but requires that names, with the exception of.

#Font glyphs list full

(period, U+002E FULL STOP) and _ (underscore, U+005F LOW LINE), and must not start with a digit. Per the Adobe Glyph List Specification specification, glyph names, whether working names or production names, should be no longer than 31 characters, must be entirely composed of characters from the following set: AвЂ“Z, aвЂ“z, 0вЂ“9. We recommend that glyph names (also called psnames or PostScriptВ® names) be included in released (that is, shipping) fonts.Дevelopers may choose to manage two sets of glyph names: working glyph names (вЂњfriendlyвЂќ names used during development) and production glyph names (used in the shipping font). 4.3 Glyph Naming Summary of Recommendations